Petit Jean State Park-Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District encompasses a landscape and buildings developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Petit Jean State Park, Conway County, Arkansas. The district includes both Lake Bailey and Roosevelt Lake, man-made by CCC-built dams, along with the waterfall between the two, as well as a boathouse, shelter and bathhouse, and the Cedar Creek Bridge, which crosses Roosevelt Lake at its outlet.”
Wikipedia article Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Conway County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Petit Jean State Park--Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E and N of AR 154, Petit Jean State Park, Winrock, 72110
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. district
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Cedar Falls township
National Register reference number. 92000515 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Petit Jean State Park-Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District between 2000 and 2016, burning about 1,754 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1,401 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Petit Jean State Park-Lake Bailey-Roosevelt Lake Historic District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Black Sands	Titanium	Past Producer
Unk	Stone	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Petit Jean State Park-Administration Office	0.3 miles	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Water Treatment Building	0.5 miles	1992
Cedar Creek Bridge	0.6 miles	1990
Trinity Lutheran Church	0.6 miles	1976
Petit Jean State Park-Concrete Log Bridge	0.6 miles	1992
Petit Jean State Park-Office Headquarters	0.7 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000515 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conway County	All 50 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.